In a live performance, it’s a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd’s energy. On television, you don’t have that. Jon Batiste Read Quote
Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It’s very complicated to make people laugh. Eugenio Derbez Read Quote
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege. Abraham Maslow Read Quote
The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn’t offer a compelling enough vision. Ro Khanna Read Quote
You have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie’s only two hours long. My hat’s off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I’m sitting here is because of modern medicine. Marcus Luttrell Read Quote
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time. Simon Winchester Read Quote
When you are in the family… you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door. Jacques Chirac Read Quote
